Barbadians are being assured that plans to convert the Transport Board into the Barbados National Transport Co-operative will not result in the negative behaviours presently being displayed by some public service vehicle (PSV) workers.

Oriel Doyle, president of the Co-operative Investment Fund Ltd and the Barbados Co-operative Business Association, who previously outlined the proposal, sought to allay concerns by Barbadians that this might only be a name change.

He explained that under the National Transport Co-operative model, there will be no outside shareholders extracting profits. Instead, the enterprise would be governed by four distinct classes of members: Transport Board workers; private PSV operators represented by the Alliance Owners of Public Transport; ordinary commuters and civil society groups; and the Government.